I THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Brandeis Students Join
Faculty for Russian Visit

Belgian Jewry

By MONTE JACOBS

(A Seven Arts Feature)

Mathematicians will prove that,
under certain algebraic conditions,
A equals B. Not so in Belgium,
• where A. Antwerp and B, Brussels,
2 show only an approximation inso-
far as their Jewish communities
are concerned. But Antwerp and
Brussels, from all practical if not
mathematical purposes, do add up
to the totality of Belgian Jewry
today, as inquiring delegates to
• this summer's fifth plenary assem-
bly of the World Jewish Congress I
will surely disc o v e r. Brussels'
des Congres has been book-
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for the 10-day sessions, begin- ,
July 31.
Ant.werp is the gem center, the
•
thriving community rooted in the
traditions of East European Jewry,
•
carving
a distinct path for its fair-
•
)
ly prosperous, patently middle-
'
class population of s o m e w h a t
better than 13,000. Antwerp is I
orthodoxy's stronghold, with kosh-
er restaurants, kosher butchers,
kosher pastry shops, and with a
I network of synagogues and prayer
houses abuzz with all the supple-
rnentary activities such meeting
mentary
places generate.
And there is Brussels where
life is international, where the
community, once almost exclu-
sively of German-Jewish stock;
espoused the Reform trend in

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homes for the aged. In all of them,
today. there is a spirit of action, a
spirit of excitement, for they ex-
pect the World Jewish Congress
Plenary Assembly to bring top
world Jewish leadership to their
community to see how Belgian
Jewry has been recreated.
For almost two weeks, the com-
munity in Belgium will be spot-
lighted as it acts as host to between
400 and 500 delegates and visitors
who will review, in depth, the is-
sues facing Jews today, be it in
Brussels or Buenos Aires, London
or Lima,

AMPAL Raises Interest

NEW YORK (JTA)—The interest
payable on the Series "L" deben-
tures of AMPAL-American Israel
Corp. has been raised to 6 per cent

from 51/2 per cent, it has been an-
nounced by the company.
The Series "L" debentures of '
AMPAL, henceforth to be known

as the Ten-Year 6-6 1/2% Sinking
Fund Debentures, 1975, will pay
the new interest rate of 6 per cent
for the period ending June 30, 1973.
Interest at the rate of 6 1/2 per cent
will be paid for the two remaining

years, to 1975.

liberal professions and saw some
of them assume roles of promi-
nence in the United States, in
Israel, in other lands. Brussels
has almost twice as many Jews

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but, as
24,000
as Antwerp
in the diamond center, they are
almost all recent arrivals, set-

tlers who f ound haven after
World War II, moving into a
city and country that had estab-
lished a reputation for extend-
- ing shelter to the oppressed.
Before World War II Belgium
was the refUge for thousands of
German Jews who managed to
escape from Hitler and breathed
a sigh of relief as they stumbled
across the Belgian border and into
the welcoming arms of the Belgian
Jews. "We used to "ask them why
they had waited so long to leave,"
Mr. Jacques Torczyner, the Presi-
dent of the Zionist Organization of
America and himself a former
Belgian Jew, recalled, "and they
would respond quickly, 'why have
you waited so lOng? Why don't you

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

A. H. AYMOND

Chairman—Consumers Power Company

$ 631,793,939

Cash and Due from Banks

HENRY T. BODMAN
Chairman of the Board

United States Government Securities...

500,158,589

M. A. CUDLIP
Chairman—McLouth Steel Corporation

Other Securities

392,459,238

HARRY B. CUNNINGHAM
President—S. S. Kresge Company

.;,;:

WILLIAM M. DAY
President—The Michigan Bell Telephone
Company

1,525,999,081

Loans

Bank Premises and Equipment.

Jain

is

22.530,937

Other Assets .

rs =as

34,044,209

Total Assets. ...--: rt vs vs re as on us

$3,106,985,993

LELAND I. DOAN
Chairman, Executive Committee—
The Dow Chemical Company

RAY R. EPPERT

Chairman—Burroughs Corporation

MALCOLM P. FERGUSON
Chairman, Finance Committee-
Bendix Corporation

EDWARD F. FISHER
Director—General Motors Corporation

EVERELL E. FISHER
Vice President and Director—
Prime Securities Corporation

LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS

JOHN B. FORD
Director—Wyandotte Chemicals Corporation

JOHN F. GORDON
Director—General Motors Corporation

Deposits:

Demand . pt mot am tr.

JR

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JOSEPH L. HUDSON, JR.
President—The J. L. Hudson Company

$1,643,428,698

DONALD F. KIGAR
President—The Detroit Edison Company

Savings and Time..eg ri In pi se...% an se 1,190,234,902 $2,833,663,600

vs pis

18,650,000

Unearned Income & Sundry Liabilities..

42,541,878

Bills Payable.

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RALPH T. McELVENNY
President—American Natural Gas Company

ELLIS B. MERRY
Chairman of the Executive Committee

F.W. MISCH
Vice President-Finance and Director—
Chrysler Corporation

PETER J. MONAGHAN
Partner—Monaghan, McCrone,
Campbell & Crawmer

Capital Accounts:

Common Stock

the old community retraced their
steps, and talked in hushed and

WRITERS

has the right to call upon all Jews to return to their homeland.

ASSETS

There were - then about 80.000
Jews throughout the country and
thousands of them did manage to
\, escape as the German forces
smashed Belgium into submission.
•
Some got away to Switzerland;
many to the United States. Some
got to France — and another per-
iod of exhausting effort to dodge
on-rushing Hitler units. The fig-
\-- ,,,res are not exact, but it is known
the Germans herded close to
40,000 Beligan Jews into the death
imps from the iron-ringed ghettos
, lat were set up in all the major
::.enters. In Malines, the main con-
•
centration point that the Nazis
established, there is a plaque re-
cording the camp's grisly role as
the transit center for 26.000 Bel-
gian Jews whose fate was final
once they left the barrack gates
and Belgian soil.
S I owl y, when the war was
ever, a few hundred members of

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli political circles rejected as "utterly

unfounded" Moscow Radio's claim that Israel's interest in the condition
of the Jews in the Soviet Union amounts to "interference into the in-
ternal affairs of the Soviet Union."
At the same time Israel's radio, Kol Israel, carried a broadcast
pointing out that just as the Soviet government continues to call upon
all Armenians in other countries to return to Soviet Armenia, Israel

Condensed Balance Sheet — June 30, 1966

get out?' "

terror-stricken tone s, as they
• surveyed what was left of their
once proud community and its
institutions. But new blood ar- •
rived, exiles from the communi-
ties of Eastern Europe, and they
helped in the job of rebuilding.
Fortunately, fund s, became
available through the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany for new school s, new
centers, new youth camps and new

Israel Rejects Moscow Interference Charge

NATIONAL BANK
OF DETROIT

Judaism, dabbled in the arts and
in music, sent its sons into the

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WALTHAM
The first contin-
gent of Brandeis University stu-
dents and faculty participating in
the Citizens Exchange Corps, a
privately organized program to
promote understanding between
American and Soviet citizens, left
New York July 9 for a three-week
visit to Moscow, Sochi and Lenin-
grad.
During their stay in the Soviet
Union, the students and their fac-
ulty advisors will attend seminars
under the auspices of the CEC
Field Institute; visit the home of
Soviet families; tour factories, in-
stitutions and government agencies;
and meet informally with their
Soviet counterparts.
Some 500 Americans are expec-
ted to take part in the summer ex-
change program, visiting the Sov-
iet Union in three groups. The
other two groups will leave Aug.
5 and Aug. 27.

Friday, July 15, 1966-11

Surplus.

GEORGE E. PARKER, JR.

(4,000,000 shares, $12.50 par)

50,000,000

.4111 31-14.ZILsus 81/1.211-.1% si.a zra set as .•

110,000,000

Undivided Profits. ;scot s: 1%.111114A5 min

52,130,515

ROBERT B. SEMPLE
President—Wyandotte Chemicals
Corporation

NATE S. SHAPERO
Chairman—Cunningham Drug Stores,

GEORGE A. STINSON
President—National
Steel Corporation
DWIGHT L. STOCKER
Senior Vice President and Director—
Brown Company

212,130,515

Total Liabilities and Capital

Accounts...aza.,:a

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ROBERT M. SURDAM
President
DONALD F. VALLEY
Chairman, Finance Committee—
S. S. Kresge Company

$3,106,985,993

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Assets carried at approximately $447,000,000 were pledged at June 30, 1966 to secure public deposits, In-

cluding deposits of $6,618,648 of the Treasurer, State of Michigan, and for other purposes required by law.

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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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